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  • Her eyes were dark and un-alive as coal rock or lava that had slowed into a stationary place and hardened dead-cold.

    Night and the spell that gave me peace Michael Parker 2011

  • To act on instinct seemed nakedly embarrassing to me - I could not bear to be that predictable, that mechanical, that un-alive.

    Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010

  • To act on instinct seemed nakedly embarrassing to me - I could not bear to be that predictable, that mechanical, that un-alive.

    Bill Shireman: What I Learned from My Dead Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010

  • Her eyes were dark and un-alive as coal rock or lava that had slowed into a stationary place and hardened dead-cold.

    Night and the spell that gave me peace Michael Parker 2011

  • To act on instinct seemed nakedly embarrassing to me - I could not bear to be that predictable, that mechanical, that un-alive.

    Bill Shireman: Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Lessons from My Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010

  • She goes on to a fascinating discussion on the philosophy of creating un-humans, from the association they have with death (being un-alive) to the philosophical implications of the lingo used in modern-day robotics and, curiously, in the places where these modern-day automata tend to fail.

    Androids and Un-Aliveness Heather McDougal 2007

  • It seems to me that with the machine age, fear of the un-alive human began, bit by bit, to take precedence over fear of witches, magic, and other fears of the unknown.

    Androids and Un-Aliveness Heather McDougal 2007

  • She goes on to a fascinating discussion on the philosophy of creating un-humans, from the association they have with death (being un-alive) to the philosophical implications of the lingo used in modern-day robotics and, curiously, in the places where these modern-day automata tend to fail.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • It seems to me that with the machine age, fear of the un-alive human began, bit by bit, to take precedence over fear of witches, magic, and other fears of the unknown.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • To act on instinct seemed nakedly embarrassing to me - I could not bear to be that predictable, that mechanical, that un-alive.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bill Shireman 2010

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